Signed up for a frame building 101 at Stayer Cycles. Has been on my bucket list for ages, beyond excited for week long course in July. But what frame style, geometry, components? If anyone wants to geek out about what choices I should make then please message me! www.iot.io/blog/2026/05...

www.iot.io/blog/2026/04... finally managed to spend some time over Easter with my @bantamtools.bsky.social NextDraw 8511 plotter. Just getting started.

First real message on my Cipherling. Is now going crazy. Need to look into how to decode these! Turn on audio for message intro.

After a quiet spell last year, some nest building for 2026. www.iot.io/blog/2026/03...

Energy neutral water pump - doing a bit of prototyping at @casaucl.bsky.social for a project with Mac at Nuna Studio - pump works great at a height of 7m. Good to see the spreadsheet theory working in practice. Next up, test rig to run it for a week.

We have had some amazing Masters students in previous years on this and the commonwealth scholarship! Come join us!

Applications open! 🌍 The Bartlett Promise Sub‑Saharan Africa Master’s Scholarship widens access to built environment education. Apply by 29 March. 🔗 https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/study/scholarships-and-funding/bartlett-promise-scholarship/bartlett-promise-sub-saharan-africa-masters-scholarship

www.iot.io/blog/2026/02... weekly notes, this week on solar powered RPis

If you're applying for our Connected Environments MSc, don't miss the UCL East Postgraduate Open Evening, featuring a specialist space tour of the Connected Environments Lab. 📍 UCL East, Marshgate 🗓️ 17:00 - 19:30, Wednesday 25 February Register now: bit.ly/3O0VBPb

“value autonomy, curiosity and public service” yep, how can we keep that central to the mission.

www.iot.io/blog/2025/12... first time visit to the V&A storehouse - well worth a visit if you can.

Interested in cities, places, connectivity, & planning? Applications are open for fully-funded UCL ESRC doctoral studentships through the UBEL partnership. The deadline is 10 November. See further details & eligibility criteria at ubel-dtp.ac.uk/postdoctoral... Contact [email protected]

Make your Master’s matter. A Master’s from UCL can take you further. Discover your potential at our graduate open events. 💻🌍 🔗 https://direc.to/nrqp #UCLGraduateOpenEvents

Lovely to welcome our fifth cohort of students into CASA CE MSc programme - some pics from induction week www.iot.io/blog/2025/09...

UCL alumnus Vishal Kumar has secured $2 million in seed funding for his startup Camera Intelligence, which is developing an AI-powered camera platform designed to simplify professional content creation. @thebartlettucl.bsky.social @uclenterprise.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/se...

"Switching off the theatres when not in use reduces energy consumption by a factor greater than the fractional reduction of time in use" New paper in Royal Society Interface from work last year supported by UCLPartners. cc @yrkalaji.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

#ucldigifest today looking forward to exploring the digital twin, digital tech for education and the communities developing at UCL - @jamespjh.bsky.social getting us started

Sense, Deploy, Communicate: Connected Environments MSc Show 18 July-03 August 1st Floor Galleries, UCL East Marshgate Opening night: 17 July, 18:00-20:00 Join us later this month to enjoy Connected Environments MSc students' graduating projects at their final show. www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/eve...

Day 3 CUPUM “like day 3 at Glastonbury” says @adamdennett.bsky.social so great to sit down to listen to the @casaucl.bsky.social legend Mike

Day 2 at CUPUM up next @fryrsquared.bsky.social and starting with a lovely game! Cc @casaucl.bsky.social

And here we go with CUPUM @casaucl.bsky.social great intro from conf chair @adamdennett.bsky.social and liking the hat tip to @digitalurban.bsky.social metaverse of posters.

www.iot.io/blog/2025/06... New book from the @casaucl.bsky.social connected environments folk will be hitting shelves soon.

The window to register is closing! Lock down your attendance at CUPUM this year before this Saturday's deadline.

Great blog by @djdunc.bsky.social describing drone surveying of flowers for pollinators near oilseed rape fields last week, in association with our pan-European WildPosh project www.iot.io/blog/2025/04...

Some notes on getting started with the DJI Matrice 4E www.iot.io/blog/2025/04...

Term 2 complete and a lovely partial solar eclipse: www.iot.io/blog/2025/03...

In the 80's Design Technology was my favourite A-Level - now watching my daughter enjoy it as much as I did - I would have loved to design a pavilion #D&T #designtech

Hello Robin. Only the second time this box in the garden has been used.

It may feel as though we live in dark times, but here in the UK there are LOADS of science festivals celebrating ideas, sparking curiosity & sharing the latest research (for both adults & kids). Someone told me recently they didn’t know where to look, so I made a list. Here goes… [deep breath]: 1/8

www.iot.io/blog/2025/03... notes from the week

This weeks side project - orthomosiac experiment www.iot.io/blog/2025/03...

Congratulations to Prof Michael Batty, whose book The Computable City has won a prize at the recent #PROSEAwards (Professional and Scholarly Excellence). Prof Batty's book was named by @americanpublish.bsky.social as a joint finalist in the category for Architecture and Urban Planning.

The Bartlett, UCL has been ranked the #1 place in the world to study architecture and the built environment for the third year in a row in The QS World Rankings by Subject 2025. We also remain #1 in the UK for the 11th consecutive year. www.topuniversities.com/university-s...

have been doing some more vibe coding this week www.iot.io/blog/2025/03...

Glorious swim in the sunshine this lunch time at Park Road Lido in Haringey. Pity it is closed at prime time given the sunk costs of keeping this running.

This is great, reposting so I can find later.

Congrats to the new Dr Santiago Martinez Balvanera @ucl-pnl.bsky.social - we even managed a drink outside to end the week! Was lovely to bump into @alex-rogers.bsky.social - a longer chat is needed next time you are around.

Thanks @genmon.fyi for being so generous with your time today talking about poem.town with @casaucl.bsky.social students - wise words as always and lovely to end with the mini crit of their live projects.

HRH the Princess Royal visiting the People and Nature lab last week

This weeks note points to the small things behind the scenes that often end up being the 80% of keeping IoT alive www.iot.io/blog/2025/02...

A new opportunity to work with our expanding #eDNA and #biodiversity lab as a postdoc looking at human impacts across space and time with terrestrial airborne eDNA. UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship funded opportunity based at the @ucl-pnl.bsky.social: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Good turnout at Bartlett open evening tonight for enquiries about both CE and USS programmes @casaucl.bsky.social if you missed tonight there is a second open evening next Wednesday at UCL East

Managed to get a peak at some pretty impressive enterprise DJI kit yesterday www.iot.io/blog/2025/01... would love to explore the thermal imaging along the banks of the river Lea @freshwaterizzy.bsky.social

“In 2007, a small team at Yahoo! briefly changed how we program the internet. This is their story.” retool.com/pipes I liked this version of the internet! Explored pipes during a hackathon at yahoo london www.iot.io/2009/05/15/h...

Inspired by @revdancatt.com at #papercamp3 I have finally acquired a pen plotter... www.iot.io/blog/2025/01...

Hey everyone! We're looking for articles for a special issue in Urban Planning journal: 🏙️ The Urban Canvas: Spatial Computing in Planning, Analysing, and Representing the Cityscape🏙️ 🗓️Important Dates: Abstracts: Sept 2025 Full Articles: Jan 2026 More info: www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplannin...

A new year check of the sensors in the @ucl-pnl.bsky.social nature smart garden - Lora devices all happy and pond is looking full again - wondering if this is rain or manually filled?

Here's the launch. The excellent Rachel McKendry has just introduced the PM. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...

Wishing i was getting a Dopplr report like it was 2008 cc @moleitau.bsky.social @biddul.ph www.iot.io/blog/2024/12...